Sean Johnston

Edinburgh street passing under Calton Bridge. Pedestrians and cars visible, with the city buildings beyond. (c) Sean F. Johnston 2010

#Edinburgh #Scotland #streetphotography #photography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #Calton #classicphotography #filmphotography #toned #monochrome #bw #bwphotography

Close-up view of rocking chair with sunlight streaming from the side, illuminating and shadowing the seat and back.

#bwphotography #classicphotography #filmphotography #photography #shadow #sunlight #resolution #mediumformat #exposure #Mamiya #fineartphotography #artphotography #chair #texture #fabric #bw #monochrome

Three cutting fingers of a plowing machine in the foreground, with a blurry field and trees in the background. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Farm machine detail.

#photography #film #35mm #filmphotography #developing #classicphotography #rural #agriculture #machinery #tools #plowing #farming #southwest #Scotland

View of dozens of geese in a large flock landing in a grassy field, with wind turbines in the background.

Geese landing, southwest Scotland, 2017

#photography #film #mediumformat #monochrome #bwphotography #filmphotography #migration #migrating #geese #wind #turbines #Southwest #Scotland

Winding rural road, with large puddles of water on either side reflecting two 30mph signs.

30x4

#photography #film #mediumformat #classicphotography #filmphotography #bwphotography #bw #monochrome #water #reflection #rural #acuity #greyscale

Ivy branches growing up a large tree. (c) 202 Sean F. Johnston

#photography #filmphotography #classicphotography #film #monochrome #bw #tree #ivy #branches #contrast #artphotography

Shadow of man, hand and camera on grass, which has clover flowers randomly growing from it.

Self-portrait with clover, 2009.

#photography #film #mediumformat #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #shadow #selfie #heiligenschein #tlr #twinlensreflex #grass #clover

Two-man crosscut saw, dating from about 1920, leaning against the wood wall of a garage. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

#photography #film #mediumformat #bw #bwphotography #monochrome #texture #wood #shadow

Arch of bridge reflected in river water, creating an oval-shaped ring framing the water. (c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

End-on view of a stone barn with a weighing scale in front. The wall is white-washed about to about 2 m, and thereafter is faded - emulating the look of the bridge arch in the adjacent picture. (c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

Bridge arch and farm wall, 2019.

#photography #bw #bwphotography #artphotography #bridge #water #stone #wall #shapes #shades #greyscale #optical #illusion #interface #boundary #oblong #square #triangle #Fuji

Vertical bars of iron, some with curled tops, ball-shaped tops or crescent shaped tops, against a leaden sky, and gravestones near the bottom. (c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

Graveyard gate, southern Scotland.

#photography #mediumformat #film #bwphotography #ironwork #iron #ornementation #gate #silhouette #churchyard #cemetery

Thanks!

Nine blocks of a larger glass wall, showing blurry reflected patterns of the street. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Glass wall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.

#photography #film #monochrome #bw #bwphotography #artphotography #abstract #artdeco #1930s #pattern #glass

Upward-facing view of a water tower, showing the structure of one of the legs and the round water-filled dome on top. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

Water tower, Rantoul, Illinois, 2008.

#photography #bwphotography #bw #film #mediumformat #monochrome #greyscale #architecture #viewpoint #Rodchenko

Vielen Dank / thanks very much

Commemorative stone added at base of First World War memorial, reading 'AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939-1945 SGT AIR GNR. ROBERT MILLAR, R.A.F. F.O. WILLIAM YOUNG R.A.F. DRIVER DONALD CARROLL, R.A.S.C.

Memorial cross in village of Keir Mill, Scotland, reading 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF KEIR PARISH WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919'

Memorial to 'The Second Great War 1939-1945', Keir Mill, southwest Scotland.

#war #memorial #Scotland #photography #commemoration #history #local #rural

Gravestone of the MacMillan family, with final line reading 'Inventor of the Bicycle'. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Commemorative plaque beside the gravestone, describing Kirkpatrick Macmillan as a blacksmithe who invented the first pedal bicycle. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Local hero: #gravestone of Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) and family, reputed inventor of the pedal #bicycle. #Keir Mill, #Dumfries & #Galloway, #Scotland. One of the more hidden-away #cemeteries in the region, but a pleasant find on a sunny early-autumn day.

#invention #technology #history

Monochrome image of side of a farm outbuilding, with a large harvest storage vat alongside. The building is sandstone painted white, with a single window in the apex. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

Bellfield farm outbuilding, southwest #Scotland.

#photography #monochrome #bwphotography #film #mediumformat #contrast #rural #farm #clear #sunshine #yellowfilter #agriculture

Freedom Road (by Langston Hughes, 1944, after Indra Rios-Moore, 2022) multi-tracked with Audacity

Freedom Road (instrumental). Words by poet/activist Langston Hughes and music by Emerson Harper (1942). Recorded by Josh White in 1966 and adapted by Indra Rios-Moore in 2022.
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#folk #protest #spiritual #cover #instrumental #inspirational #guitar #LangstonHughes

Butterfly with dark grey-brown wings, each with about a dozen yellow patches and three or four eye-shaped 'target' spots on the rear. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Downward view of green plants with elongated, sharply pointed green leaves each having a dark grey splotch in the middle, growing in a stony plowed field. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

An uncommon (to me) Speckled Wood Butterfly today in a large plowed field now full of knotweed (Redshank).

#Scotland #southwest #agriculture #woodland #countryside #hedgerows #nature #rural #photography

Blue glass bead, found at road edge intersecting the former Holywood Abbey site, southern Scotland. (c) 2013 Sean F. Johnston

Piece of greenish and translucent glass, likely from a window of the former Holywood Abbey, demolished in 1777. (c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston

Mediaeval finds: blue #bead and #stained #glass near the site of #Holywood #Abbey, southern #Scotland.

#FindsFriday #archaeology #mediaeval #glass #Scotland #religious #sites

1930s photo of average-build moustachioed man with tall collar, which appeared in the Bell Telephone Magazine. He was an electrical engineer at Western Electric from 1926 to 1962.

A rare photo of Clair L. ("Red") Stong (1902-1975), editor of Scientific American's 'Amateur Scientist' column from 1953-75, which inspired generations of amateur scientific equipment-builders and experimenters.

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#maker #makers #hacking #amateur #citizenscientist

White wooden gate with two pheasant feathers threaded through a metal loop. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston

Pheasant feathers.

#photography #film #bwphotography #monovhtomr #artphotography #mediumformat #6x6 #square #rural #Scotland #southwest #gate #field

Two roys of aluminium beer barrels having yellow painted bands around their middles. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

Aluminium barrels, southern #Scotland.

#photography #Fuji #pattern

Edge of table grave showing embossed carving of crossed shinbones, skull and words 'memento mori'. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed carvings of crossed shinbones, skull and casket. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed shield within which are three bearded heads and possibly scales. Dated 1707 (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed carving of skull with wings. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Details of early 18c table gravestones with memento mori iconography. #Caerlaverock #graveyard #southern #Scotland.

#photography #cemetery #gravestones #mementomori #skull #crossbones #casket #sandstone #flying #heaven #death #reminders

View of 1722 table grave in sandstone, carved with upper case letters (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

HERE LYES THOMAS DANILL JOSEPH AND CATHRINE HUTTONE LAWFULL CHILDRINE TO JOHN HUTTONE TO AND AGNES MARTIN SPOUSSES IN GLEN HOUEN ERECT BE THE SAID SPOUSSES ANNO DOMINI 1722

#Caerlaverock #church #graveyard #tablegrave #18C #Scotland #text #photography #taphophile

Front view of Illinois National Guard building, with a sloped roof behind four art deco stone pillars, themselves behind two large American eagles above a broad staircase entrance. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

From another era: Illinois National Guard building, Urbana, Illinois, 2008. Built in 1939, the same design was used in Urbana, Champaign and Elgin, Illinois.

#photography #film #35mm #Pentax #monochrome #bwphotography #artdeco #architecture #modernism #UIU #NationalGuard #Americaneagle #statepower

View of an acoustic guitar with wide-angle lens near the neck, foreshortening its appearance. (c) Sean F. Johnston

#photography #guitar #foreshortening #contrast

Leave the Light On (after Chris Smither, 2006) Guitar and 2-string bass multi-tracked using Audacity.

Instrumental cover of a beautiful Chris Smither composition on aging and the passage of time.
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#composition #folk #aging #time #passage #guitar #2-string

UK red phone box, repurposed as a free library of books for and by the community. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Free library, Kirkton, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

#photography #books #library #southern #Scotland #phone #kiosk #box #red #community #distribution #civility

Carved relief of an hourglass with wings, representing transitory life and ascent to heaven. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Victorian gravestone carved from sandstone block, carrrying a high relief sculpture of a hand reaching downward to lift a veil or curtain, symbolising the transition to heaven. (c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Transition iconography. Winged hourglass and lifted veil. #Troqueer cemetery, Dumfries, #Scotland.

#photography #gravestone #memorial #mementomori #tempusfugit #hourglass #veil #handofgod #19C #tomb #afterlife #taphophile